b'Alumnus ProfilConversation with Alumnus Deepak Jayaraman: Driving Start-up Success Through DEIAfter leaving the practice of law nearly 20 years ago, Mintz alumnus Deepak Jayaraman built a career facilitating international business investments and expansions. Now, as a Partner and Global Head of Business Development and Collaborations at venture capital firm Antle , Deepak provides high-value corporate strategy to clients, playing a leadership role in M&A transactions, early-stage investing, and innovation and ideation programming. His clients include global corporations like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Singapore-based Clermont Group, among others.In a conversation with Tom Burton, the Chair of Mintzs Energy & Sustainability Practice, Deepak talks about Antlers approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion and why its good for business. Antlers focus on DEI is important to Mintz, as the firm is also deeplyommitted to these issues and works closely with Antlers US portfolio companies as the official legal partner o Antler Innovation US LLC.Its not just the best ideas, but its the best ability to execute on those ideas. Having a great idea is all well and good, but if you dont have the right team to execute on it and bring it to life and bring it to value, then the idea is sort of irrelevant, Deepak said.VIEW THE VIDEO4'